Along with his talent in art, Nick was also an excellent poet.
One of his poems, Painting Hamsters Blue was made into a short animation entitled Blue by the Cambridge
Graphics and Animations Society. Nick did most of his writing in the middle of the
night when everybody else was in bed, but many of his poems and cartoons were also written
in school exercise books when Nick evidently wasn't paying attention in class. Nick
never thought he learnt anything worth learning after leaving primary school, and he said
everything useful he knew was self taught, such as his art, poetry and computer
programming.

Nick memorised a lot of poems that he liked, such as "The Lady of Shalott",
"Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "The Walrus and the
Carpenter". Nick greatly admired William Blake, who was also both an artist and
poet. Another favourite of Nick's was the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.